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Wandering Top Tips: How to Secure and Dementia-Proof Your Home
People diagnosed with Alzheimer's and dementia often have a tendency to wander outside the safety of their home. We’ve compiled experienced caregivers’ best tips for preventing elopement during episodes of wandering.
1 CommentWandering Top Tips: Best Products for Monitoring a Senior Who Wanders
Dementia can cause disorientation and an increased risk of wandering and getting lost. Experienced caregivers’ provide their recommendations for the best products and strategies for monitoring a loved one who wanders.
0 CommentsWhat Causes Seniors with Dementia to Wander?
We’ve compiled experienced caregivers’ best tips for understanding why dementia patients wander and strategies to combat this dangerous dementia behavior.
1 CommentHow to Stop Dementia Patients from Wandering
Use this three-step approach to better understand why dementia patients wander and develop interventions for wandering that prioritize safety, independence and calmness.
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Dementia Wandering Questions
Should I move mom out of memory care across the hall to assisted living side? She is bored, quite active, and not as demented as others.
18 AnswersBurntCaregiver Replied 14 hours agoMy husband in a facility is acting up, screaming, yelling. Despite mobility issues, he manages to get out of bed and to floor. Can they discharge him?
12 Answerscorkycorkk Replied Oct 6, 2024Any ideas on how to handle someone with dementia that gets out of bed several times a night, gets dressed and wanders around the house?
19 AnswersTouchMatters Answered Oct 3, 2024When might California begin to provide more appropriate residential facilities, than SNF's that are not locked down, to Alzheimer’s?
5 AnswersAlvaDeer Answered Oct 1, 2024
Dementia Wandering Discussions
Worried about mom being isolated.
4 CommentsGracie61 Commented Oct 2020Finally came to the decision...
9 CommentsPandabearAUS Commented Aug 2019Sleep schedule changes to adapt to their changing cycle has been helping with sundowners and hallucinations.
5 Commentsanonymous272157 Commented Dec 2018Alzheimer's husband with delusions. Is there medication to calm his mind?
5 CommentsIssybeau Commented Aug 2018
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